Beyond the Caliphate: Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees

Beyond the Caliphate: Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees

Posted on October 24, 2017

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As the so-called Islamic State (IS) loses territorial control of its caliphate, there is little doubt that the group or something similar will survive the worldwide campaign against it. As long as the conditions that allowed the group to exist in the first place remain, IS or something like it will survive. The threat will mutate…